This isn’t exactly what I thought I’d be writing about this week, but, as we’ve seen this year, plans change. So, right around Tuesday last week, my life-train suddenly derailed. Not a horrible derailment in the grand scheme of things, but a derailment nonetheless. I wish I could tell you it happened because of an […]
Too Much of a Good Thing
October 13, 2019 by Leave a Comment
I am a voracious reader. I always have been. One of my clearest memories as a child (in first grade, I think) is lying in bed reading The Boxcar Children, and yelling to my mom asking her to tell me what the words meant when I didn’t understand them. Later in high school, I remember […]
Order and Planning and Schedules
September 22, 2019 by Leave a Comment
One of the most jarring things about losing an established routine is having to come up with a new one to fit completely different circumstances. I’ve found it to be very challenging to move from an extremely regimented life, where schedules were imposed on me from the outside, to one that is a lot more […]
Back Again
September 17, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Hello, my dears! My, but it’s been a long time since I’ve posted, hasn’t it? Sorry about that. One reason I’ve been delayed is that I keep thinking I’ll write a funny little story-post with the Muse and Harry and Skipper and all the rest. Then time slips away and I don’t do it. This […]
The Search For A Blog Post
February 26, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Once Upon A Time, not so very long ago (this afternoon, in fact), there was a girl named Betsy who was sitting in front of her computer desperately seeking a blog post. Betsy strove mightily to put out a blog post at least once a week. But, alas, The Sickness had descended upon her and […]
Print News and Other Newsy-News
September 2, 2015 by 2 Comments
Hello, my friends! I thought I would write another chatty, newsy little blog post, because I actually have news to chat about! And that, as we all know, is so rare an occurrence that it must needs be celebrated. So, I’m going to try to ignore the incredibly persistent fruit fly determined to fly up […]
